On the occasion of an exhibition held at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, March 25 - October 3, 2023; Design Museum Helsinki & Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, November 10, 2023 - April 1, 2024; Vandalorum, Varnamo, April 27- October 13, 2024; Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, November 2024 - March 2025; V&A Dundee, April 2025 - December 2025. Includes bibliographical references (page 219) and index.
Contents:
Paradise / Carolina Madde -- Dreaming of a global garden / Luke Keogh -- From garden city to post-industrial landscape / Oliver Sukrow -- Acres of opportunity : how we became guerilla gardeners / Liz Christy, Donald Loggins -- Gardening in times of crises / Jochen Eisenbrand -- On the lawn / Kris Kozlowski Moore -- Nature's helpers / Jochen Eisenbrand -- The invention of leisure : from park bench to lawn lounger / Nina Steinmuller -- Gardens for everyone / Leo den Dulk -- The collaborator / Isabela Ono, Nina Steinmuller -- "My garden's boundaries are the horizon." / Nina Steinmuller -- Gardening to the cycles and rhythms of nature / Astrid Sprenger -- The disturbances of the garden : in the garden, one performs the act of possessing / Jamaica Kincaid -- Can art be nature? / Hanno Rauterberg -- "It's okay to borrow from popular culture." / Yujia Bian -- "All of our work is about connecting." / Ng Sek San, Viviane Stappmanns -- The planetary garden / Gilles Clement -- Taming the taxonomy / Christoph Miler -- "If we destroy the forest, we risk everything." / Alemayehu Wassie Eshete, Viviane Stappmans -- "Human habitats need to accommodate other living beings." / Celine Baumann, Viviane Stappmanns -- "Let's call it biospheric urbanism." / Bas Smets, Lisa Dabscheck -- "We have to shift the way Indigenous knowledge is valued." / Julia Watson, Lisa Dabscheck -- A garden of ideas ... with works by Full Grown Studio, Alexandra Kehayoglou, Marian van Aubel, Stefano Boeri Architetti, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Lacaton & Vassal, Ryue Nishizawa, Edible Estates, Fritz Haeg, Forest Gardens, Dan Pearson, Midori Shintani, Catherine Mosbach, Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, Toulou Keur, James Hitchmough, and others / Marten Kuijpers, Maria Heinrich, Viviane Stappmanns, Lisa Dabscheck.
Summary:
Gardens have always been places of leisure, pleasure, and production. They reflect identities, dreams, and visions. They also have deep cultural histories and immense symbolic potential. The recent revival however has focused less on the garden as a site of romantic refuge and more on the garden as a place to imagine the future otherwise; urban farms, vertical gardens, and other innovative urban planning projects demonstrate that this present return is no timid retreat but a pioneering quest for a world in which ecological justice counts for something.0?Garden Futures℗ł examines what gardens and their design reveal about our relationship to nature. In exploring the history of ideas behind the modern garden, this book takes a close look at the present, searches into the past, and builds bridges with the future. It includes stunning photographs of groundbreaking gardens by artist Derek Jarman and garden designer Piet Oudolf, while critical essays by well-known authors question the ideals of the conventional garden ? from seemingly perfect, water-wasting lawns to ubiquitous plants and their colonial roots. Historical photo-essays consider the garden as a political space, and gardeners Gilles Clement and Jamaica Kincaid present the garden as a place of learning where abstract concepts like ecology, climate change, and food insecurity are translated into things you can smell, touch, and taste. ?Garden Futures℗ł also features experimental approaches taken by gardeners and landscape architects such as New York?based Julia Watson and Malaysian collective Kebun-Kebun Bangsar. In the age of the Anthropocene, it is hoped that this book is part of recognizing the entire planet as a garden that we need to tend to and use responsibly.00Exhibition: Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany (25.03-03.10.2023).
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